Dora Schmiegal

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Have the elections made you feel sick to your stomach? Do you clench your teeth every time you hear George Bush or Tom Delay or Alan Greenspan sound bites reported on the news? Are you getting a queasy feeling that you are not really in control of your own life, your own country, your career, your retirement or even your own opinions? Is your self-confidence troubled by profound doubts about who or what you can believe anymore? Do you repeatedly ask yourself if you are going insane, or is everyone else?

There is a remedy for what ails you: read a chapter of Dora Schmiegal washed down with a warm glass of cognac. If you do not feel better immediately, wait two weeks and read another chapter, and then another chapter two weeks after that. The average adult can read as many as two chapters of Dora Schmiegal a month in our serialized release. You can read all twenty-four chapters in the run-up to the November 2004 presidential elections without ill effect, unless you are a politician or neo-conservative reactionary.

Caution: reading and driving do not mix. In addition, too many glasses of warm cognac may cause all the words of Dora Schmiegal to blur together.

Some readers may suffer an allergic reaction to Dora Schmiegal. Adverse reactions include jingoistic apoplexy, breaking out in red, white and blue hives, or speaking in glossolalia. In the event of such allergic reactions, the reader should immediately cease reading the book, eat several servings of fatty, low-nutrition, high-calorie fast food, watch twelve hours of network television (including all the commercials), gargle with gasoline, go shopping and then await rapture in your Sport Utility Vehicle.

Other potential side effects of reading Dora Schmiegal include uncontrollable chortles, the desire to consume non-GMO food and an urge to permanently turn off your television set. In some instances, readers will decide to run for local public office, or to support other progressive-minded candidates for public office. These symptoms can lead to permanent conditions of political enlightenment and activism for which there is no known cure. In some instances, liberal readers of Dora Schmiegal will experience an impulse to share the link for this web site with their friends. If that happens, then the above-described side effects may propagate throughout the population.

Please read responsibly.

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